liveLIVE. Legislative: Macron in favor of “constructive” majorities



The essential

  • On LCI, Elisabeth Borne said she was “very confident that we can find deputies to vote on texts because we have integrated their proposals”. The Prime Minister must dialogue this Friday with the political leaders of several opposition groups: the RN, LFI and ELLV.

  • Emmanuel Macron is struggling to get out of the situation born of the legislative elections, cornered by the opposition and deemed responsible by public opinion for the deadlock situation towards which Parliament is heading.

  • According to LFI deputy Manuel Bompard, Nupes will present joint candidacies for the various positions of responsibility in the National Assembly. The boss of the PS Olivier Faure defended his “crazy bet” of the rally within the Nupes, which was rejected by many figures of the party.

  • The former environmentalist presidential candidate Yannick Jadot stressed that the Greens were “always ready to compromise” and did not rule out that they would participate, under conditions, in a possible “coalition” government to get out of the political crisis.


4:04 p.m. – Emmanuel Macron in favor of “constructive” majorities

During a visit to Brussels on Friday, Emmanuel Macron promised “compromises” in order to build coalitions with “the parties of government”. At a press conference at the European summit, the Head of State said he was in favor of “constructive majorities”, with agreements on legal texts to have “a clear agenda”. “I believe that’s what Italy and Germany are doing and that’s what we will do,” he added, saying he was “very confident”.

3:32 p.m. – Chrysoula Zacharopoulou reacts to accusations of rape against her

The Secretary of State for Development, Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, targeted by complaints of rape, dismissed the accusations on Friday, deeming them “unacceptable and revolting”. “The serious accusations against me, relating to medical clinical examinations carried out in order to diagnose and treat the illness of my patients, are unacceptable and revolting,” she said in a statement sent by her lawyer. As a reminder, this 46-year-old gynecologist is the subject of two complaints for rape and a third complaint for violence without incapacity for work by a person responsible for a public service mission.

2:58 p.m. – The President of the National Assembly elected Tuesday at 3 p.m.

The deputies will be called to vote Tuesday, June 28 at 3 p.m. for the president of the National Assembly, the fourth character of the State. The Minister of Overseas, Yaël Braun-Pivet, will be the majority candidate. The former president of the Law Commission at the Palais-Bourbon, re-elected MP for Yvelines, is on track to succeed Richard Ferrand, who was defeated in the second round of legislative elections. It would be a first in France for a woman to become President of the Assembly.

2:11 p.m. – La Nupes maintains its desire for a motion of censure

Some 57% of French people still want Elisabeth Borne to leave Matignon, according to an Odoxa study for Le Figaro released Thursday. The oppositions, including Nupes, could bring it down in favor of a motion of censure. A potential approach that LFI MP Danièle Obono mentioned again on Twitter on Friday. “And a majority of the Assembly can force Macron to change it by voting against the confidence (if they ask for it) or for a motion of censure (which we will then propose)! #BorneOut,” his tweet read.

1:50 p.m. – Secretary of State and gynecologist Chrysoula Zacharopoulou targeted by a 3rd complaint

The gynecologist and Secretary of State for Development, Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, is the subject of a third complaint for violence without incapacity for work by a person responsible for a public service mission. The complaint was filed Thursday, June 23. The show Daily (TMC) collected the testimony of this patient, who says she suffered “gynecological violence” during an appointment in 2018 with Chrysoula Zacharopoulou to treat her endometriosis. The Paris prosecutor’s office opened an investigation on May 27 after the filing of two rape complaints against the Secretary of State.

12:47 p.m. – Franck Riester calls for finding a dynamic thanks to the diversity of the Assembly

The Minister Delegate in charge of Foreign Trade calls, this Friday, to move forward despite the absence of an absolute majority. “We must find the ways and means (…) to make this National Assembly work,” he said on Public Senate. “Let us collectively demonstrate that greater diversity in the National Assembly is not a source of immobility, he assures us, but on the contrary something which makes it possible to move forward, to carry out important reforms for the country on the basis of compromise!”

12:32 p.m. – The relative majority rather acclaimed by the French

A majority of French people believe that the relative majority obtained by Macron in the legislative elections is “a good thing”, according to Odoxa polls for Le Figaro, BVA for RTL-Orange and Ifop-Fiducial for Sud Radio published on Thursday. The fact that no political force has obtained an absolute majority in these legislative elections is “rather a good thing”, because it strengthens the role of Parliament, estimate 56 to 69% of those polled, according to the various institutes. 24 to 33% of respondents believe, however, that this risks blocking the country. A majority of French people (53%) say they are “satisfied” with the result of Sunday’s polls, according to Odoxa. Similarly, for Odoxa, 83% of those polled consider that Emmanuel Macron “comes out weakened” from these elections, 76% that he will be “prevented” from implementing his program and 70% that he “bears responsibility for this political situation”. The departure of the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, appointed a month ago, is also desired by 57% of French people, against 42% who believe that she should remain in office, identical figures for Odoxa and BVA.

12:15 p.m. – Jean-Marie Le Pen: “I would like Marine to invite me to the Assembly”

The “Menhir” welcomes the result of the RN and advises new deputies to “prepare for power” in the event of the dissolution of the Assembly.

Read our interview with Jean-Marie Le Pen: “I would like Marine to invite me to the Assembly”

11:49 a.m. – The measures of the future LFI bill

The group La France insoumise will table a bill in the Assembly next week “to respond to the social emergency” and the soaring prices due to inflation, said LFI deputy Manuel Bompard on Friday. “We have to measure the situation in which we are today, the prices which are soaring, wages which are too low. 85% of wages are today lower than the level of the minimum wage (1,302.64 euros net since the May 1, 2022, editor’s note), that’s the reality, it’s poverty that is reaching peaks, there are 8 million people who need food aid to live, we have to respond to this situation”, a he explained on France Info.

The bill, he said, will include two key measures: “the price freeze on basic necessities, energy, fuel, and the increase in the minimum wage to 1,500 euros net”, two proposals that were already in Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s program for the presidential election. The increase in the minimum wage will be financed “by setting up what has been called an inter-company fund fund which makes it possible to have the social security contributions due to this increase in the minimum wage covered by large groups, and not by small companies. , craftsmen or traders”, insisted the deputy LFI.






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